Hanging SMTP sessions...

Mon Jan 29 20:18:14 UTC 2001

In article <101029.10550.20206 at avi.netaxs.com> you wrote:

One problem we've seen is with mail servers which want ident, and
remote sites which firewall ident - but by silently swallowing the
SYNs instead of sending RSTs.

FYI,

Avi

: Hi all,

:    anyone come across stuff like this?  We are runing qmail 1.03, and i'm seeing
: some  strange things.   I have a number of SMTP sessions which just hang, and
: then time out.  No mail is actually accepted from these sessions...

: load is 0.00, so the processes are just hanging around for no reason...
: and it's always the same sources...